Buy a bargain panettone and a month\u2019s supply of chocolates \u2013 and consider developing a historical ailment such as bilious humour. It will all be over soon<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to alarm anyone on this, the 95th day of January, but I have just realised that there are still almost two weeks before February starts. I don\u2019t know about you, but the January 2025 time loop has broken me: my blood has become toxic ectoplasm and my bones are jelly worms. I don\u2019t so much live the 43 minutes of daylight we get in North Yorkshire as sullenly, listlessly exist through them. This morning, putting on leggings to go to the gym defeated me, so I just lay on the bathroom floor instead.<\/p>\n
This is not our first January rodeo \u2013 we have survived before; we will survive again. Last year, some idiot even tried to claim January was \u201csort of great\u201d (yes, that idiot was me<\/a>). But the coping strategies I have found online all seem rather worthy, rather preachy, rather \u201chello birds, hello sky\u201d. So to expiate for last year\u2019s idiocy, I have devised some better survival tips, none of which involve \u201cspending time in nature\u201d, \u201cgentle stretching\u201d or \u201cnourishing soup\u201d.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Buy a bargain panettone and a month\u2019s supply of chocolates \u2013 and consider developing a historical ailment such as bilious humour. It will all be over soon I don\u2019t want to alarm anyone on this, the 95th day of January, but I have just realised that there are still almost two weeks before February starts. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}